Ash

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

you could just do shit back then

texas is still like this

degenbrecher is so awesome because she's a living weapon as like, a hobby. no complexes about it whatsoever, zero difficulty being anything other than a living weapon, it's just something she likes doing. and make no mistake she's one of the best to ever do it.

I do think part of the reason she’s so chill about it is because she’s already been through the worst of it. I’m sure if we saw her in Kazimierz then we would see her having problems with it, because the people in Kazimierz only saw the weapon in her, and wanted her to be that weapon pretty much 24/7. In Kjerag people have gotten used to her, and treat her as a mostly normal person, and while Silverash does utilize her combat prowess he does so much less often than what she had to do in Kazimierz.

the thing about copyright abolition is that. what makes theft bad is that something is taken away from its rightful owner. in this sense, copyright infringement is literally not theft, because making a copy of something doesn't tangibly cause the original owner to lose anything that they would otherwise have. copyright enforcement, on the other hand, does take away people's access to what should be theirs. anyone who makes art while employed by a corporation and is unable to sell their work because it does not belong to them, anyone who's been sued by a pop musician for making music that sounds vaguely similar if you don't allow the jury to listen to the actual songs, these people have far more in common with victims of theft than anyone whose copyright has been infringed

Been getting into ceramics lately

How do they taste man

It hasn’t even been five minutes. Why do so many of you think I’m eating it. It hasn’t even been five minutes.

Yeah yeah whatever how do they taste man

Not so good.

where's the joy and whimsy guy? Have they found this one yet?

@joy-and-whimsy-official

i still don’t understand what the difference is between a strike and a ball ❤️

Hey look. Accurate oppression.

Working with different business cultures all over the globe, my biggest surprise is that while the USA is bad, it's not actually the very absolute worst I've ever worked with.

I can imagine all the guesses, but if you haven't talked with a crap ton of people from dozens of countries, it's not obvious.

Apparently tumble ate my explanation, but the worst business guys are Australians.

I work with businesses, but I'm not working in business. Which is nice because at least a few times a year I get to tell an extremely confident corporate executive, "Sorry, but you simply cannot." Everything else is pretty horrible though.

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

reblog to do this w your mutuals